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Contributions
Live Animal Export: Simply safer ships
Australian vet Dr Lynn Simpson highlights flaws in livestock carrier designs. There’s an old saying: “Amateurs built the ark, professionals…
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Asia
Pakistani PM inaugurates China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif was on hand yesterday to inaugurate a trade route linking southwestern Gwadar port to the…
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Gas
Record breaking ethane carrier delivered
Yesterday saw Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) take delivery of a revolutionary very large ethane carrier from Samsung Heavy Industries.…
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Americas
Farewell, the Gutenberg Galaxy; hello, the Zuckerberg Zoo
Today the world has seen the end of two centuries of Anglo-Saxon dominance – a hundred years of Britain, from…
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Europe
Marenave Schiffahrts edges closer to financial oblivion
Marenave Schiffahrts is a step away from financial oblivion with the board revealing two creditors have vetoed the Hamburg-based owner’s…
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Asia
THE Alliance unveils service offerings
Hot on the heels of rival OCEAN Alliance announcing its service network for next April, another container grouping THE Alliance has…
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Asia
Hanjin sliding out of the top 20 liner list fast
Hanjin Shipping, the seventh largest containerline in the world when it filed for bankruptcy at the end of August, will…
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Contributions
Live Animal Export: Trapped at sea
What happens when animals try to escape ship? Dr Lynn Simpson explains. Get me out of here! That’s normally how…
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Containers
Shipping growth outlook ‘uncertain’: UNCTAD
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) annual report on shipping warns that future growth looks uncertain. Seaborne…
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Americas
Cadets in servitude and human rights
Barista Uno reports from Manila on how crewing CEOs are using maritime cadets as flunkeys. It tells a lot about…
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Asia
Calls grow for Pakistan to adopt shipbreaking code in wake of last week’s deadly inferno
Calls have grown for dramatic reforms at the Gadani shipbreaking area in Pakistan following last week’s tragic blaze on a…
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Middle East
Zim puts global network up for sale
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Israel’s largest shipping line Zim Integrated Shipping Services is looking at selling its global…
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Containers
The scramble to join container shipping’s exclusive millionaire’s club
1.3 million. That’s the new threshold in teu where a carrier can feel just about safe, according to Splash contributor…
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Asia
Analysts welcome Japanese box merger and ponder who’s next in consolidation wave
Shipping analysts have applauded the move from Japan’s big three lines to merge their container divisions, while musing who will…
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Containers
Holy scrap!
When one wants to express strong astonishment, ‘Holy mackerel!’ is a nautical expression that does the trick well. We heard…
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Asia
At least 10 workers killed as fire rips through beached tanker at Gadani
A giant fire engulfed a beached tanker today killing at least ten workers at the Gadani shipbreaking area in Pakistan…
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Asia
SGX reprimands Swiber
Having only obliquely referenced the company before the Singapore Exchange (SGX) finally came out and lashed Swiber Holdings yesterday. Singapore-listed…
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Asia
Kidnapping crews proves alarmingly lucrative for Abu Sayyaf
Kidnapping seafarers is proving alarmingly lucrative for Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. Newswire Associated Press reports that the Islamist group…
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Asia
NYK, MOL and K Line to merge container divisions
The three Japanese majors who will help form THE Alliance next April are to merge their container operations. Nippon Yusen…
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Europe
The 4,923 teu YM Los Angeles sets new boxship scrapping records
Setting a new benchmark, Diana Containerships has moved to scrap a panamax boxship that was delivered less than 10 years…
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